The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of...
Tom Cantrell’s world revolves around excellence, and it seems he will go to any length to achieve perfection on, and...
The story of the Cooper Car Company is well known where father and son team Charles and John Cooper in 1946 set up shop in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. John was keen on motor racing and the first cars built were comprised of joining the front ends of...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
It was seeing Raymond Mays’ ERA that first drew a young John Sismey to mechanical engineering. After a grammar school...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that it will be offering a once-in-a-lifetime group of Aston Martins at its flagship Monterey auction...
Only four names come to mind when one recalls which drivers have driven their self-constructed cars in World Championship Grands Prix. Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney and Bruce McLaren, of course, and they won with them too, but the other was a lesser-known man hailing from the southern tip of Africa....
Imagine you are a designer in late 1952. One day you are sitting, staring out of the window, when your...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
Don Garlits Ayrton Senna Photo: Bury Mason 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda F1 engine designer and later Honda President and CEO, is born (1936). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and...
When Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth first met at Lotus, little did they think that one day a racing engine...
Fifty years after the Goodwood racing circuit first closed its doors to competitive motor racing, the doors were opened once again for a 19th step back in time to visit a bygone era that is the Goodwood Revival. Full theatrical stage settings, props and performers were on hand to bring...
Oscar Wilde wrote, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” This sounds a lot like the car hobby to...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He...
Imagine driving your homebuilt special, powered by a modified production car engine, in two World Championship Grands Prix and finishing 10th in the second one. These days that would earn you a World Championship point. Here de Klerk fends off a challenge with his Alfa Romeo Special during the 1962...
Last month we presented the first half of European Editor Mike Jiggle’s interview with engine wizard John Judd, and the...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
Photo: Pete Austin As a wayward young schoolboy, John Judd found it difficult to find employment in the engineering businesses around his home city of Coventry. Despite having good qualifications and being at the epicenter of the UK car industry, he was rejected first by Jaguar and then initially by...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number...
Photo: BRDC Archive My greatest racecar is not a car I actually drove, but it represents a missed opportunity I...
Sir Jack Brabham AO, OBE, triple Formula 1 World Champion, has died at the age of 88. Sir Jack passed away peacefully at his Gold Coast, Australia, home on Monday 19th May 2014. Formula 1 World Champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966 and double Constructors’ Champion (1966 and 1967), Sir...
Black Jack and his Brabham biplane are evidence of the aerodynamic wilderness in which the Grand Prix teams found themselves...
Alpine and Renault – the Sports Prototypes Vols. 1 & 2 By Roy Smith Originally published in 2010, the story...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the first time I ever really thought about racing tires. It was the German Grand Prix of 1961. The 1.5-liter formula had just come in, and the tiny, 4-cylinder Coventry Climax...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time...
Frankly, I was surprised at how easily it drove after some previous experiences I had with other open-wheelers. Owner Ed...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier crammed a lot into his 42 years. He was an accomplished Formula One and sports car racer, president of the Grand Prix Drivers Association and proprietor of his own art...
